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Fonts in the Rocks of Brook Courses

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I BELIEVE the present an opportune time to direct the attention of geologists to the occurrence of water-graven fonts in the rocks of brook courses, as the season of field-work is come, and the summer conditions of our water-courses facilitate observations of this most curious and interesting, as well as deeply important, of river physics.

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MORRIS, W. Fonts in the Rocks of Brook Courses. Nature 20, 430–431 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/020430b0

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